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Joe Harmon drifts, while Ashni Singh spins

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Front Page Comment, News Comments Off on Joe Harmon drifts, while Ashni Singh spins

Kaieteur News – Opposition Leader, Mr. Joseph Harmon, either thinks he is slick, or we are stupid. But whatever games Mr. Harmon is playing, we are not fooled. He may think that Guyanese are...

Suriname can access oil companies’ accounts whenever it wants

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Suriname can access oil companies’ accounts whenever it wants

– while Guyana only permitted to audit once per year Kaieteur News – Suriname’s petroleum laws mandate that its accountants and representatives of a state enterprise shall at all times...

Nigerian linked to US$1.3B oil scandal set up shop in Guyana

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Nigerian linked to US$1.3B oil scandal set up shop in Guyana

By Kemol King Kaieteur News – Many Guyanese have read about Dan Etete, the notorious former oil minister of Nigeria, who awarded himself a lucrative oil block via a company he secretly owned,...

Fired NICIL head, Heath-London, remains in police custody

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Fired NICIL head, Heath-London, remains in police custody

Giveaway of Peter’s Hall lands… Kaieteur News – Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state-owned National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Colvin Heath-London,...

Australian exec. arrested for bribing Iraqi government officials in multi-million oil contracts

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Australian exec. arrested for bribing Iraqi government officials in multi-million oil contracts

Kaieteur News – A former construction giant executive took part in an elaborate conspiracy to bribe Iraqi government officials, including their former Deputy Prime Minister and two former oil...

Murder-accused prisoners use bed sheets to escape Lusignan Prison

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Murder-accused prisoners use bed sheets to escape Lusignan Prison

Fourth breach for year… Kaieteur News – Three inmates yesterday used a string of bed sheets to escape from the Lusignan Prisons, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD). Currently on the run are...

BK finally vacates $827M Yarrowkabra school site

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on BK finally vacates $827M Yarrowkabra school site

Kaieteur News – Contractor, BK International Incorporated, has finally vacated the work site of $827M Yarrowkabra Secondary School. Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General (AG), Anil...

Police “big wigs” fingered in $150M missing funds scandal – sources

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police “big wigs” fingered in $150M missing funds scandal – sources

Kaieteur News – As the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) continue their probe into the $150M missing funds from the Finance Department of Guyana Police Force (GPF) Finance Unit, sources close...

Linden pensioner robbed of church money in home invasion

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Linden pensioner robbed of church money in home invasion

Kaieteur News – A 65-year-old pensioner, Ann Headley, was held at knife-point and robbed of her belongings at her Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden home in Region 10. The robbery, according to...

Bond fingered as mastermind behind Peters Hall land scandal …as police hunt for ARKEN principal

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Bond fingered as mastermind behind Peters Hall land scandal …as police hunt for ARKEN principal

Kaieteur News – As the probe into the Peter’s Hall land giveaway scandal progresses, information emerging from sources inside the Guyana Police Force (GPF) disclosed that People’s National...

Tough talk

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists Comments Off on Tough talk

Dem Boys Seh… Guyanese like mek rough jokes’ but usually dem nah mean no harm. Is suh we stay. We like rub people de wrong way, just fuh fun. De world gan soon get a vaccine fuh de coronavirus....

This crazy country of ours!

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on This crazy country of ours!

Kaieteur News – The government is entitled to its opinion, but it is not entitled to its own version of the truth. It has a right to decide who it wishes to work with, but it is not at liberty...

A Pimper’s Paradise: Pimping Guyanese tragedies

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on A Pimper’s Paradise: Pimping Guyanese tragedies

Kaieteur News – The Guardian newspaper of the UK last week ranked the 30 best songs of Bob Marley. Music is culture and unless you have a class background in the culture you were born into, you...

Sophia couple busted with $1.5M in ‘ecstasy’, ‘ganja’

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Sophia couple busted with $1.5M in ‘ecstasy’, ‘ganja’

Kaieteur News – Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) busted two persons on Friday, with $1.5M worth in suspected marijuana, amphetamine (ecstasy) and methamphetamine at their home....

Region 6 records 35 new COVID-19 cases

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Region 6 records 35 new COVID-19 cases

Kaieteur News – The Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday reported 88 new COVID-19 cases of which Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) has chalked up 35. The newly recorded cases increase the total...

Kwakwani now has 24-hour electricity

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Kwakwani now has 24-hour electricity

Kaieteur News – Prime Minister, Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips on Friday commissioned a 900-kilowatt generator set at Kwakwani Utilities Incorporated—which will lead to the community...

Police beef up security for Christmas

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Police beef up security for Christmas

Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is ramping up its efforts to ensure that citizens are safe while conducting business during the Christmas season. Members of the GPF’s Mounted...

Second, third phases of $14M market repairs start this week

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Second, third phases of $14M market repairs start this week

Kaieteur News – Phases Two and Three of the $14 million rehabilitation works being executed on the Albouystown and East Ruimveldt Markets respectively are to begin this week. Naeem Khan,...

Albion man jailed six months for toilet paper theft

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Albion man jailed six months for toilet paper theft

Kaieteur News – A 42-year-old man of Albion Village, Corentyne, Berbice was on Wednesday charged with simple larceny. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment. Divendra Bissoon was arrested...

Demerara trio arrested in Berbice after snatching cash from businessman’s vehicle

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Demerara trio arrested in Berbice after snatching cash from businessman’s vehicle

Kaieteur News – Three men from Demerara are in custody after they were intercepted on Friday in a car by police with a quantity of stolen cash. The men reportedly stole the cash from a...

Policy to be developed to address workers’ safety – pay in mining industry

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on Policy to be developed to address workers’ safety – pay in mining industry

Kaieteur News – Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton, says his Ministry will be looking at developing a policy that deals specifically with workers health, safety and pay within the mining...

New Jersey flags to be lowered for Guyanese-born airman who died while serving overseas

Nov 22, 2020 KNews News Comments Off on New Jersey flags to be lowered for Guyanese-born airman who died while serving overseas

Kaieteur News – New Jersey, US (nj.com)- Gov. Phil Murphy ordered all flags in New Jersey to be lowered on Monday in honor of a 21-year-old U.S. airman from North Brunswick who was found dead...

REVISITING THE SCOURGE OF SQUATTING

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Consumer Concerns, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on REVISITING THE SCOURGE OF SQUATTING

Kaieteur News – When one sees newspaper headlines such as: “GUYSUCO EMPLOYEES AMBUSHED, ROBBED” or “SQUATTERS ROB NEIGHBOURING RESIDENTS”, it alarms those who yearn for...

Time to Heal

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Editorial Comments Off on Time to Heal

Kaieteur News – We have heard it before, from one triumphant politician after another, those ringing words and phrases that stir and inspire. We heard them again last week, and because they...

IMPROVING SERVICES WITH STANDARDS, RESTAURANT WEEK AND BEYOND

Nov 22, 2020 KNews Features / Columnists, News, Standards in Focus Comments Off on IMPROVING SERVICES WITH STANDARDS, RESTAURANT WEEK AND BEYOND

Kaieteur News – As we continue to observe Tourism Awareness Month 2020 under the theme “Destination Guyana: Recover, rebuild – Getting ready to bounce back,” many stakeholders within the...

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Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

The stakes are high in Guyana’s democracy

Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- In any vibrant democracy, the mechanisms that bind it together are those that mediate differences,... more